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Navigating Research: Covidence

ECU Library now administers an institutional subscription to Covidence, a leading web-based tool designed to support researchers in conducting systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and develop clinical guidelines. 

Covidence streamlines the entire review process, from screening references and extracting data to keeping meticulous records, making it an invaluable resource for our academic community.

With Covidence, you can efficiently manage large volumes of data, collaborate seamlessly with team members, and ensure consistency and accuracy throughout their projects.


 


What Covidence offers?

Easily import references from your favorite tools like EndNote, Zotero, Refworks, and Mendeley. Covidence supports multiple formats (RIS, CSV, PubMed XML) and helps you manage duplicates, saving you time and effort.

Find out more:  How to import references?

Speed through title and abstract screening with keyword highlighting and a lightning-fast interface. Covidence tracks all votes, supporting both single and dual screening, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

Find out more: How to screen by title and abstract?

Effortlessly transfer PDFs from your reference manager to Covidence, streamlining your workflow.

Find out more: How to bulk import PDFs?

Quickly review full texts, capturing reasons for exclusion and resolving disagreements with ease, ensuring a thorough and transparent review process.

Find out more: How to screen by full text?

Stay focused on your PICO question with customisable extraction forms, allowing you to extract only the data you need, making your review more efficient and targeted.

Find out more: How to create, publish and update data extraction 2 template?

Automatically populate risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting directly on your PDFs, ensuring a thorough and accurate assessment.

Find out more: How to customise the Risk of Bias domains in Extraction 1?

Extract data efficiently with a side-by-side view of your customised form and PDF, and easily compare your results with other reviewers, enhancing collaboration and accuracy.

Find out more: Data extraction for intervention systematic reviews

Export your data in all common formats, allowing you to continue your review in your preferred software.

Find out more: How to export extracted data to Excel using Extraction 2?

Invite colleagues and external reviewers to collaborate on your project seamlessly, enhancing teamwork and productivity.

Find out more: How to invite a team member to a review?

Whether you're conducting a review or guiding others through the process, the bundle brings together real-world guidance, templates, and tools - built by the Covidence team to help you work smarter and more consistently.

Download all three eBooks in one simple folder

Why it's proving so popular:

  • Clear, accessible content based on real user challenges
  • Ideal for onboarding students and early-career researchers
  • Helps avoid common mistakes and streamline the process

 

 

Covidence Extraction 1 Tool

This session is a deep dive into Covidence's newly revamped Extraction 1 tool. It is aimed at researchers who are familiar with the platform and are working on intervention reviews, i.e. reviews that study the effect of drugs, therapies, vaccines, medical devices, procedures, or public health policies.
We will walk you through the steps of:
✔️ Creating, modifying, and publishing data extraction templates in Extraction 1
✔️ Managing reviewers
✔️ Extracting data from studies
✔️ Producing consensus data so that the final data are ready for export
✔️ Exporting data from Covidence

Date & Time: August 12, 2025 12:30 PM in Perth

 

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